[OpenAFS] Which filesystems for vicep on linux

[Blake Atkins]

Out of curiosity, why would you want to use AFS on top of GFS? All my 
experiences with GFS have been negative, mostly because I can't seem to make 
it fast.

The experience with filesystems under /vice I've had:

ext2: Works perfectly

XFS: My current filesystem of choice. Must use '-i size=512' when formatting 
the filesystem. Works perfectly.

ext3: Would probably work if the kernel patch didn't break the AFS kernel 
module. You could probably run an AFS server on ext3 as long as you didn't 
need to use the client. If you try to use the client you may get an "/afs - 
Not a directory" when you try to 'cd' to it.

Reiser: Works fine but the 'reiserfsck' destroys all the data on the 
partition. I wouldn't recommend this for obvious reasons.

I haven't tried JFS although I was reading somewhere it wouldn't work. 
Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that it is OS/2 JFS and not 
AIX JFS.

Again, this is just the results I've gotten, yours may vary.

--Blake


On Friday 19 October 2001 06:40 am, you wrote:
> Which filesystems can be used for the vicep partitions on a linux system?
> We did a try with gfs (http://www.globalfilesystem.org) with a linux 2.4.9
> on a redhat 7.1 system. Mounting an afs volume in read only mode works but
> in read write mode the fileserver crashes immediately.
>
> Has anyone experiences on this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Johannes
>
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